In a notice of appeal filed Thursday at the Alberta Court of Appeal in Calgary, the Blairmore native cited three specific grounds for why he deserves a new trial.

Saretzky, 24, also appealed the 75 years of parole ineligibility he was handed by Court of Queen's Bench Justice William Tilleman after he was convicted in June by a Lethbridge jury.

Among the arguments Saretzky's lawyer will raise is that the law which allows for periods of consecutive parole ineligibility for multiple murders amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Charter.

Saretzky was sentenced last month to life in prison for the murders of three people in the Crowsnest Pass.

He confessed to killing Coleman senior Hanne Meketech on Sept. 9, 2015, after breaking into her home.

Five days later he entered the Blairmore residence of Terry Blanchette and bludgeoned and stabbed to death the 27-year-old.

Saretzky then went upstairs and kidnapped Blanchette's two-year-old daughter from her crib and took her to a remote location north of town.

There he strangled the toddler with a shoelace, dismembered her body, drank her blood and ate part of her heart, before burning her remains in a campfire.

In his notice of appeal Saretzky says Tilleman erred by finding his statements to police were admissible into evidence.

He also argued the trial judge erred by failing to find his Charter rights weren't violated on his arrest the day after he killed Blanchette and little Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette.

Finally he says Tilleman should not have allowed the prosecution to argue there were similar facts between the three killings making him likely guilty of all three.

At Saretzky's sentencing, both Tilleman and lead prosecutor Photini Papadatou said the end of the case would allow for closure for the tight-knit communities of Crowsnest Pass.

"The chapter is closed," Tilleman said, in acceding to the Crown's request for consecutive periods of parole ineligibility, based on legislation introduced by Parliament in 2011.

Papadatou added that the residents of the close-knit community in southwestern Alberta can now move on.

"It's time for the community to heal and put themselves back together again," Papadatou said.

"This community came together to address a horrendous act and they did so with dignity and equanimity.

"And I think, to me, it has restored my faith in both justice and the community, and how they dealt with possibly one of the worst cases that this province has ever seen."